Fish Purchasing
CatchManager™ is the centerpiece of Parity's complete seafood procurement system to process fish purchases and settle fishing vessel accounts efficiently and accurately. This system adapts to every type of fish buying operation, including mixed species purchased on the dock, high volume purchases through tenders and buying stations, and fisheries with special buying procedures.
Catch Manager manages every aspect of your relationship with fishing boats and boat owners. Whether you buy with cash on the dock or advance funds and purchase on account, the system controls and documents each transaction for easy reporting and easy look-up. Your suppliers will appreciate clear and concise statements with easy-to-understand detail, while your staff will appreciate how easy it is to maintain accurate settlement records.
Fish Ticket Processing CatchManager™ configures easily to any type of species, season and buying operation. Price lists, automatic bonuses, retroactive price adjustments, automatic deductions, and settlement check printing are just a few of the ways Catch Manager reduces the workload in your fish purchasing office. Even correcting errors is made easy: the system lets you reverse an entire transaction, excluding both the original and correcting entries from settlement statements while maintaining a complete audit trail for accounting and control. Behind the scenes the system automatically manages and organizes pricing, deductions, accounting, buyer tracking and raw material lot tracing. Flexible Pricing Catch Manager supports multiple price lists based on the vessel account, species, or season, reducing costly pricing mistakes. The system maintains a complete audit trail of all price changes and price list version history. In the event you need to correct or revise the price on previous purchases, the automatic price adjustment feature saves hours of manual, error-prone calculations. Settlement statements can detail price change history or summarize to the most recent price. Multiple Premiums Each ticket may contain multiple premiums. Premiums are set up by specie and can be automatically added to a ticket based on buyer or boat. Premium management reports show the vessel and associated products to which premiums were applied. Buyer Tracking & Receiving Lot Tracing Each fish ticket documents the catch area and receiving location from which the product originated. Integrated receiving lot tracing maintains a link from the field to the finished product and to the customer. Printed reports show productivity, quality and volumes by vessel, buyer and catch area. Raw Material Purchasing Analysis Easy access to vessel account status and history saves time and eliminates the need to keep volumes of printed reports. Convenient on-screen inquiry and comprehensive printed reports keep you in touch with day-to-day operations, vessel accounts and accounting information. Fish tickets maintain information such as vessel, catch area, buyer and receiving location for reporting and analysis. Flexible printed reports analyze purchases by commodity, location and vessel. Vessel Payment Processing Settling fishing vessel accounts can be as simple as printing an account statement and a check. Payment Processing automatically (or manually, based on a specified cut-off date) computes and prints settlement checks, excluding and selecting open items as necessary. Each settlement tracks the items associated with the payment, automatically reconciling the account. The settlement details all types of transactions: fish tickets, deductions, price adjustments, bonuses, cash, checks, advances, supply sales, credit memos and holdbacks. Holdbacks Open purchase orders to third parties may be applied to settlements as holdbacks. For example, the Purchase Order module directly charges each fishing vessel account for equipment and supplies purchased for them. Settlements include these amounts as holdbacks even before you receive an invoice from the supplier. The system automatically carries forward the holdback until the third-party obligation is finalized. Agency Reporting CatchManager provides complete flexibility in meeting the reporting requirements for all state and government agencies. Reporting areas can be related to or completely separate from taxing districts, and the system supports reporting requirements that may encompass different geographical breakdowns. Deductions CatchManager supports automatic deductions from fish tickets. Advanced configuration capabilities define deductions for association dues, garnishments, financing, etc., based on the location, vessel, species or other criteria. Deduction formulas may be based on gross weight, paid weight or value. The system manages any company-paid liabilities in the same manner. Integration with General Ledger and detailed deduction reports provide a complete audit trail and financial control of remittances to the agencies involved. Direct Supply Sales to Fishing Vessels CatchManager handles direct sales of equipment, bait, ice gear and supplies to fishing vessels with item codes for pricing and accounting. General Ledger integration and optional price lists simplify routine transactions. The system tracks supply sales by buyer or station, whether paid in cash or deducted from settlements. Easy Error Correction CatchManager supports fish ticket reversal (a single ticket or a batch of tickets) posted to a specified period. A reversed ticket is automatically generated from a posted ticket. You have the option of reinstating original tickets for corrections using the same ticket number. Sales and credit memos can also be reversed and corrected. For maintaining clarity in presentation to vessel owners, the system permits reversal of erroneous transactions so they show in the audit trail but don’t appear in the account statement or settlement.